Dear Colleagues,
Following is the detailed information about the volume mentioned in my
other email, just sent to you. If you want to order this book, please let
me have your signed orders by airmail or fax (no email!).
With best wishes,
Felix Geyer
Secretary WG01, ISA
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"SOCIOCYBERNETICS: COMPLEXITY, DYNAMICS, AND EMERGENCE IN SOCIAL
SCIENCE"
The Working Group on Sociocybernetics and Social Systems (WG01) is pleased
to announce the forthcoming publication of a selection of the most
interesting and innovative papers presented at our successful August 1996
conference in Bucharest. The 250-page volume, entitled "Sociocybernetics:
complexity, dynamics, and emergence in social science" (sic, without
capitals: it is very British!), is edited by WG01 secretary Felix Geyer,
and will be published in September 1997 as a double issue (vol. 26:6-7) of
the journal "Kybernetes".
Although Kybernetes definitely does not come cheap, at 2010 pound sterling
(sic!) for a 9-issue volume, your editor has been able to arrange with
publisher MCB University Press that runover copies of this beautifully
printed and layouted double issue will be made available, ONLY for WG01
and ISA members, at the extremely reduced price of $30 excluding postage -
rather than the 460 pound sterling, or roughly $700 (!), that a double
issue would cost to the subscribers.
Since MCB University Press publishes over 100 journals, but is not a book
publisher, your (signed) orders for the book should be faxed (31 20 622
9430) or airmailed to Felix Geyer (SISWO, Plantage Muidergracht 4, 1018 TV
Amsterdam, the Netherlands), who will pass them on to MCB, by whom buyers
will be billed.
The contents of this volume, in alfabetical order of author, are:
0) Felix Geyer (The Netherlands): "The Promise of Sociocybernetics:
Solving Problems in Social Science - An Introduction"
1) Heinrich Ahlemeyer (FRG): "Observing Observations Empirically:
Methodological Innovations in Applied Sociocybernetics"
2) Adam Arvidsson (Sweden - Italy): "Reconstructing the Public Sphere:
Autopoietic Systems Theory and the Observation of Postmodernity"
3) Kenneth Bailey (USA): "System Entropy Analysis"
4) Paolo Barbesino (Italy - UK): "Towards a Postfoundational
Understanding of Community"
5) Bruce Buchanan (USA): "Assessing Human Values"
6) Michael Byron (USA): "Crisis-driven Evolutionary Learning: Conceptual
Foundations and Systemic Modeling - A Summary Abstract"
7) Cor van Dijkum (The Netherlands): "From Cybernetics to the Science
of Complexity"
8) Galin Gornev (Bulgaria): "The Creativity Question in the Perspective
of Autopoietic Systems Theory"
9) Torcuato Perez de Guzman (Spain): "Reflexivity and Feed-Before: From
Sociology to Systemics"
10) Richard Henshel (Canada, deceased): "Hypothesis Testing for Positive
Feedback Models: Some Uses of a Modified Poisson Distribution for Loops
Involving the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"
11) Bernd Hornung (FRG): "Conceptual Modelling for Technology Assessment of
IT Systems: Smart Cards and Health Information Systems"
12) Vessela Misheva (Bulgaria-Sweden): "Systems Interpretation of the
Concept of Alienation"
13) Francisco Parra-Luna (Spain): "The Notion of System as a Conceptual
Bridge Between the Sociology of Organizations and Organizational
Efficiency"
14) Bernard Scott (UK): "Inadvertent Pathologies in Human Communication"
15) Gerard de Zeeuw (The Netherlands): "Knowledge Acquisition in Changing
Realities"
16) Johannes van der Zouwen (The Netherlands): "The Validation of
Sociocybernetic Models"
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